Yes you need the SHQ version for it to work with your DA*300. I had the non SHQ version and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work until someone here raised it.

I ended up getting the Pentax 1.7 adapter and the Tamron 1.4 and both work with SDM.

It would have a front element as big as a manhole cover

I haven't had the desire for a DA*200 for the same reason as Pete, I have the DA300 and the Sigma 180mm which suits my needs.

There is a DA*200 thats been listed on Gumtree here in Aus for the past month with no takers, at around 700quid i'm not sure how that price stands up to what you can get it for Stefan.

Its a fantastic lens and wow you will love it.

£1k wow also

Lilly, I have a few shots I can show you with the 21mm, in fact its the very same lens Mike now has as I sold it to him some months back.

All these shots are uncropped and unprocessed.

Both taken from the 80th floor @ f8 iso200
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A close up shot about 1 meter away f4.5 200iso
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Wide open 3.2 at 3200iso a little noisy as you would expect
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Wide open at 800iso
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Wide open at 400iso
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Also wide open at 400iso
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I was there last weekend.

I took my 3 ltds 77mm, 43mm, 35mm macro and also my Sigma 10-20mm

Its a fantastic place and this is the best time of year to go. I was last there in 1981 and its certainly a lot more commercialised now.

Nice shots Lance
Where were they taken, it looks like you are fairly close to the ocean

I get some of those birds at my local pond. The swan is my fav

Nice shot Mike, I must say I never tried the 21mm with any close focus shots.

Thanks Dan,
I reckon it would be easier on one leg, only one leg too get tired instead of two
There was chinese guy climbing up as we were coming down and he was on all fours looking upwards and scurrying up like a crab.

The camels were some distance out of Alice Springs at Curtain Springs.

Thanks Lance, Im always up for gasbag and a photoshoot.

BTW thats an impressive list of Kit you have there. Where did you get the DA*60-250, was it locally : I have seen a couple advertised around Sydney but at exorbitant prices.